Daytonian in Manhattan

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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Full Circle -- No. 122 Waverly Place

photograph by the author As wealthy citizens lined Washington Square with elegant mansions in the 1830s, speculative developers...

Friday, April 17, 2015

The Albert Shattuck House -- No. 19 Washington Square No.

As wealthy New Yorkers established Washington Park (later renamed Washington Square) as a refined residential neighborhood, Brook...

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Tom Miller: Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..

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